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Akon disagrees with Will.i.am over Jackson album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 17 November 2010
Akon doesn’t agree with Will.i.am that the new posthumous Michael Jackson album is “disrespectful”. Unsurprisingly, as he sings on the first proper single from said album, ‘Hold My Hand’.
As previously reported, Will.i.am, who worked with Jackson on unreleased tracks in 2006, told Entertainment Weekly: “Michael Jackson songs are finished when Michael says they’re finished. Maybe if I never worked with him I wouldn’t have this perspective. [But] he was very particular about how he wanted his vocals, the reverb he used … He was that hands-on”.
But yesterday Akon told TMZ that working on ‘Hold My Hand’ was a “dream come true” and that he “honestly disagrees” with the Black Eyed Pea’s claims, adding: “I don’t see anything disrespectful about it … these albums would have come out if [Jackson] was alive or dead so I think this helps to keep his legacy alive”.
Of course many, if not all, the tracks on ‘Michael’ probably would have been released, eventually, if Jackson had lived. Though Will.i.am’s point that the late king of pop would have done further work on all of them before making them public does still stand.
